(Jerusalem Post) Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - In Kibbutz Be'eri, Rami and Vered Gold, awoke to the sounds of rocket fire. By 7 a.m., gunshots resonated throughout the kibbutz. Rami, 70, went off to help the local civilian response team. "I picked up a gun from a dead friend, took a few magazines, and got on an electric cart to pick up another friend who was hurt; that friend died in my arms," Rami recounted. "It was 10 people facing 100 to 200 well-equipped Hamas terrorists....They [Hamas] drove in convoys like ISIS, with heavy machine guns on pickups, shooting their way in - hand grenades and RPGs. The response team that came to stop them - all 10 of those people - are dead, Rami said. "Most people were in bomb shelters, because of the rockets. They knocked on the doors and asked people to come out. Those who did, they shot. Those who did not, they burned the house and smoked them out. Some of the terrorists didn't have rifles, so they used axes and machetes and killed everyone in sight." Rami and another resident continued to fight for 12 hours. They took up a post on a porch in the Olives neighborhood and shot the terrorists as they passed by. "We got down to the last bullet. Eventually, two angels came - two people, reserve soldiers. We have no idea where they came from. They gave us ammunition...and then we kept going - until the army arrived." Vered pointed to the Olives neighborhood a few meters away. "My sister lived in the houses over there, the ones you must have seen; they were burnt down....They came and ripped her from her home. They put her in a room with other residents and shot them all dead." Rami said, "Something on the other side in Gaza has to be changed. They'll have to understand that either they will find a way to live with us or they won't be able to be here. It is us or them."
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